· Food stamp recipients pinched by food costs

Lynda Wheeler shops with her daughter, Jaime, 2, shortly after midnight at One Stop Food & Liquors on Chicago's South Side on May, 1, 2008. The market doors open at midnight on the first of each month for the express purpose of letting her and a dozen or so others to start shopping the instant they have access to the new month's allotment of food stamps. This is what the soaring cost of food looks like at street level: Poor people whose food stamps don't buy as much as they once did rushing into a store in the dead of night on the first day of the month.
· Calif. carnival ride collapses; 24 injured
A carnival ride spinning with people collapsed at a Calif. county fair Friday night, injuring all 24 people aboard.
· Sex offenders hit with Internet law
Three convicted sex offenders have been arrested in New Jersey after allegedly surfing social networking Web sites and are believed to be the first charged under a new law restricting their use of the Internet.
· Texas checks number of sect 'girls'

Texas State Troopers, left, and far right, man a roadblock as a bus with members from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, who are in state custody, depart from the San Angelo Coliseum where they had been temporarily housed in San Angelo, Texas Thursday, April 24, 2008. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)Texas child welfare authorities released statistics showing nearly 60 percent of the teen girls taken from a polygamist sect's ranch were pregnant or had children.
· Huckabee aims gun joke at Obama
Mike Huckabee, interrupted by a loud crash as he spoke to the National Rifle Association, joked that the noise was Barack Obama falling off a chair as he dodged a gun aimed at him.
· Calif. vote on gay marriage expected

From left, Ernie Frausto, Ricky Terry, Ben Holder, and Eric Shangle, all of San Francisco, dance as they celebrate California's supreme court decision on Castro Street in San Francisco, Thursday, May, 15, 2008. A huge crowd gathered in the Castro district to celebrate, after the California Supreme Court overturned a voter-approved ban on gay marriage Thursday in a ruling that would allow same-sex couples in the nation's biggest state to tie the knot. The California Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay marriage will not be the last word.
· U.S. delays first war crimes trial
A military judge has postponed the first war crimes tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, saying he wants to wait until the Supreme Court makes its ruling on the right of detainees to challenge their confinement in civil courts.
· Student accused of poisoning teacher
A 16-year-old student is accused of poisoning his teacher, who went to the hospital with "severe intestinal distress" after the teen spiked a soft drink with eye drops, authorities said.
· Muskogee's teen mayor

John Tyler Hammons, the 19-year-old newly elected mayor of Muskogee, Okla., gestures as he speaks during an interview in his new office in Muskogee, Okla., Thursday May 15, 2008. The University of Oklahoma freshman is moving out of a dorm and back in with his parents as he prepares to be sworn in next week as mayor of this 38,000-person eastern Oklahoma city made famous in Merle Haggard's "Okie From Muskogee." Nineteen-year-old John Tyler Hammons has a lot on his plate as he prepares to take over as mayor of Muskogee, Okla., but he's trying to keep his priorities straight.
· Jilted lover behind threats to black men

David Tuason is shown in this undated photograph provided by the United States Marshals. Tuason pleaded guilty Thursday, May 15, 2008, to all eight counts in the indictment for electronically transmitting or mailing threatening communications. His sentencing is July 24. The FBI says Tuason wrote threatening and derogatory letters over 20 years, often targeting black men seen with white women. A man who wrote hundreds of hateful letters to black and mixed-race men seen with white women apparently was motivated by a girlfriend who left him.